Day 157: Following Jesus (2026)
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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension using the Great Adventure Bible Timeline. We'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 157. We are on day four of our second messianic checkpoint through the Gospel of St. Mark. We're reading the Gospel of Mark chapters 7 and 8. We're also praying Psalm 23, which is going to sound familiar to many of you. Psalm 23 today, as always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition.
I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension to read the scriptures. To download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. And if you want to, and you're able to, you can subscribe to this podcast. in order to receive daily episodes. You also can rate this podcast. I don't know if anyone knows about that, but you can. You can give it zero stars, you can give it one star, you can give it five stars, you can write a review, whatever you like to do. But we are on day 157, which is remarkable. And just, I know I say this too often, but gosh, what a gift. For 157 days, you have opened your heart and opened your mind to God's word. and that is that is it's it's not small it is not a small thing and so here we are reading from the gospel of mark chapter 7 and 8 and praying psalm 23. the gospel of saint mark chapter 7. the tradition of the elders
What passages are we reading today (Mark 7–8 and Psalm 23)?
Now, when the Pharisees gathered together to him with some of the scribes would come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is unwashed. For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they purify themselves. And there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze. And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled? And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men. You leave the commandment of God and hold fast the tradition of men. And he said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and he who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die. But you say, If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is korban, that is, given to God. then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on, and many such things you do. And he called the people to him again and said to them, Hear me, all of you, and understand.
There is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him, but the things which come out of a man are what defile him. And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable, and he said to them, Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on? Thus he declared all foods clean. And he said, What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
All these evil things come from within and they defile a man. the Syrophoenician woman's faith. And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre in Sidon.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–1:27
2
What passages are we reading today (Mark 7–8 and Psalm 23)?
1:27–7:02
3
Why do the Pharisees criticize Jesus’ disciples for not washing their hands?
7:02–12:34
4
How does Jesus distinguish external ritual from interior conversion?
12:34–16:22
5
What does the Syrophoenician woman’s interaction reveal about humility and faith?
16:22–19:22
6
How do Jesus’ healings of the deaf and blind illustrate sacramental realism?
19:22–21:44
7
What is different about the feeding of the 4,000 compared to the 5,000?
21:44–28:35